Patrick Lyons

Reviews Roy Woods' "Waking At Dawn" (Review) On "Waking at Dawn," Roy Woods strays a bit from his original sound toward the middle of the modern R&B road, and he ends up with his strongest batch of songs yet. By Patrick Lyons July 07, 2016
Original Content Ranking The 2016 XXL Freshman Freestyles We list this year's XXL Freshman freestyles from worst to best. By Patrick Lyons July 05, 2016
Original Content Top Tracks: June 27 - July 3 DJ Khaled, Joe Budden, and Rae Sremmurd crack the top five in this week's Top Tracks list. By Patrick Lyons July 04, 2016
Original Content The Top 20 Projects Of 2016 (So Far) With exactly six months to go in 2016, we rank the 20 best projects from the first half of the year. By Patrick Lyons July 01, 2016
Reviews Review: Desiigner's "New English" Desiigner flops hard on his debut project, "New English," which shows that he doesn't have much to offer beyond "Panda." By Patrick Lyons June 30, 2016
Original Content Top Tracks: June 20 - June 26 Some powerful collabs break into our Top Tracks list this week. By Patrick Lyons June 27, 2016
Original Content Classic Rotation: Jay Z's "Reasonable Doubt" "Reasonable Doubt" gave us an uncompromising portrait of Jay Z the hustler before the superstardom and entrepreneurial exploits. By Patrick Lyons June 25, 2016
Original Content The 10 Best Five Fingers Of Death Freestyles Counting down the rappers who've survived and thrived on Sway In The Morning's "real MCs only" freestyle challenge, The Five Fingers Of Death. By Patrick Lyons June 24, 2016
Reviews YG's "Still Brazy" (Review) YG proves "My Krazy Life" wasn't a fluke on the almost equally-satisfying "Still Brazy." By Patrick Lyons June 21, 2016
Original Content Top Tracks: June 13 - June 19 New tracks by Kanye West, Logic, Juicy J, DJ Mustard, Belly, Chief Keef, and Young Thug sneak into this week's Top Tracks list. By Patrick Lyons June 20, 2016
Original Content Top 10 Compilation-Style Albums By Producers When producers take the reigns and make their own albums with rotating casts of rappers, results vary. Here are the ten best ones. By Patrick Lyons June 18, 2016
Reviews Kodak Black's "Lil BIG Pac" (Review) Kodak Black proves he's a Southern legend in the making on "Lil BIG Pac." By Patrick Lyons June 16, 2016